The victim, identified as José Luis Alfaro Guevara, 23, was shopping at a mobile phone company kiosk.
“That’s life, my son is there,” said José Elías Alfaro, this afternoon in front of his son’s body, murdered yesterday afternoon by alleged gang members at a gas station in Apopa, north of San Salvador.
The victim was identified as José Luis Alfaro Guevara, 23, who was at a telephone company kiosk at the time of his attack, where he was said to have come to buy.
In the same incident, a cell phone saleswoman was shot and taken to a hospital, where she was admitted due to the severity of the injuries, police sources said.
SEE: “That’s Life. There is my son ”: father of a young man murdered in Apopa
José Luis Alfaro Guevara, murdered yesterday in Apopa by men on motorcycles. Photo EDH / f. blond
According to authorities and relatives who arrived at the crime scene, the victim lived in El Castillo 2 subdivision, always in the Apopa municipality.
According to Elías Alfaro, his son worked as a bricklayer, although he said he didn’t know where he worked. As every day, he left for work this Saturday morning on his motorcycle, which was close to the body.
According to the prosecution, the victims of José Luis were riding two motorcycles. The body had eight bullets.
The victim’s life partner, who is pregnant, has also arrived at the scene. Relatives denied that the young man had any ties to gang groups. However, while waiting for authorities to take his son’s body to the Institute of Legal Medicine, the victim’s father said, “Children sometimes hide things.”
Moments when Legal Medicine employees remove the body. One more person was injured in the armed attack. Photo EDH / Francisco Rubio
No news of missing merchants
Apopa is a municipality where the 18th Revolutionary Gang and the Mara Salvatrucha predominate. The two groups are present in that municipality, police sources say.
During the first days of this month, several people in that congregation disappeared, including the crates of two merchants, one of dairy products and the other of soft drinks and beer.
On December 5, in the afternoon, 20-year-old John Harley García Funes disappeared when he left his home in the Guadalupe neighborhood, always in Apopa, to a car repair shop and to the market in that town where he had a dairy business. and grains, as he told his family. However, he never got to either place.
Three days later, Amadeo de Jesús Campos Henríquez disappeared from his home in the Jardines de Madre Tierra urbanization between the night of 8 and the early morning of December 9, a few meters from a police station.
According to Campos Henríquez’s relatives, those who took him also stole the deeds of two houses and several crates of beer.
In either case, the authorities have made no progress in the investigation, according to the relatives of both merchants.
Some complained that when they inquired about the matter in Apopa’s prosecutor’s office, they replied that they were investigating, but be patient, that this is not the only missing persons case they are investigating. The same is happening with the police, they confirmed.